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Growing up into God's Favor - Part 1 - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: Isn't it funny how people have already made up their
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  Speaker 1: mind before they ask you anything, they bring a preconceived
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  Speaker 1: ideology into the situation and nothing you say will move
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  Speaker 1: them because they have prejudged it. Amen. The Jews had
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  Speaker 1: agreed already that if any man did confess that he
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  Speaker 1: was Christ he should be put out of the synagogue.
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  Speaker 1: In other words they're just looking for an excuse to
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  Speaker 1: put us out. Therefore said his parents, he is of age,
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  Speaker 1: ask him. Then again called they the man that was
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  Speaker 1: blind and said unto him, give God the praise. We
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  Speaker 1: know that this man is a sinner. Talking about Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, you're giving too much credit to this man.
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  Speaker 1: Give God the praise. The man you respect is a sinner.
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  Speaker 1: He answered and said, I don't know whether he's a
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  Speaker 1: sinner or not. All I know. I don't know whether
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  Speaker 1: it's the right day. I don't know whether he stood
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  Speaker 1: on the right sidewalk. All I know is that I
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  Speaker 1: was sitting there blind and now I can see. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know how I'm excited to have the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: share the word of the Lord with you and to
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  Speaker 1: make you to understand that you have to grow up
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  Speaker 1: into favor of That favor doesn't just come full grown.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't feel favored. You don't look favored. It
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  Speaker 1: looks like everything is working against you. And then all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, the next step you take opens up
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  Speaker 1: God's divine favor in your life. Growing up into God's
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  Speaker 1: favor is God's word for you today. And I pray
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  Speaker 1: that it would strengthen you and encourage you in the
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  Speaker 1: things of God. Take a look at this. Get ready
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  Speaker 1: to be blessed. The Bible says... That in the ninth
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  Speaker 1: chapter of the Gospel of St. John, that Jesus passed
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  Speaker 1: by and saw a man which was blind from his birth.
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  Speaker 1: His disciples who were hungry for information, they had to
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  Speaker 1: take a crash course. in faith to understand who they
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  Speaker 1: were and how they were to operate, said, Master, who
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  Speaker 1: did sin, this man or his parents, that he was
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  Speaker 1: born blind? Whenever we have an adversity in our lives,
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  Speaker 1: we have a tendency in our own human reasoning system
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  Speaker 1: to always want to understand why this happened. Who do
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  Speaker 1: I blame for this? Well, I'm like this because my
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  Speaker 1: parents were like this. I'm like this because I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have parents. I I'm like this because I'm black. I'm
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  Speaker 1: like this because I'm white. I'm like this because my
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  Speaker 1: father dropped me on my head. I'm like this because
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  Speaker 1: my mother ate ice cream when she was pregnant. We
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  Speaker 1: always look for some reason to explain the vicissitudes of life.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus blows all of this out of the water, said
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  Speaker 1: neither did his parents sin, nor did he sin. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, it was nothing that he did to bring
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  Speaker 1: this on himself. Oh God, I want that to sink in.
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  Speaker 1: Because somebody's blaming themselves for something that you have no
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  Speaker 1: responsibility in. He said it was nothing that you did
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  Speaker 1: that brought this on you. This happened. It is nothing
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  Speaker 1: that your parents did that caused this to happen. Things happen.
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  Speaker 1: Bad things happen to good people. So rather than to
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  Speaker 1: spend your energy trying to figure out who do we
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  Speaker 1: blame for this condition, you ought to be preparing yourself
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  Speaker 1: because God is about to give you a breakthrough in
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  Speaker 1: your life. Look at this. Neither have this man sinned
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  Speaker 1: nor his parents, but that the works of God should
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  Speaker 1: be made manifest in him. This is a profound statement.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is suggesting here that the works of God are
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  Speaker 1: made manifest through the adversities of men. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say that again. That the works of God are made
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  Speaker 1: manifest through the adversities of men. In other words, if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't go through anything that was adverse, God would
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  Speaker 1: not have a way to show how strong he is
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  Speaker 1: in your life. Are you hearing what I'm saying? That
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  Speaker 1: when you want to see the works of God made manifest,
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  Speaker 1: look for somebody who's in the most deplorable situation. Because
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  Speaker 1: God's strength is made perfect in our weakness. When we
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  Speaker 1: are at our worst, then God is at his best.
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  Speaker 1: And just because you are in a crisis mode right
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  Speaker 1: now does not mean that you're going to spend... Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I got to deal with that a minute. Amen. Too
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  Speaker 1: many times, more times than not, we have a tendency
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  Speaker 1: to want to categorize people and put them in a file.
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  Speaker 1: This is a good person. This is a bad person.
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  Speaker 1: This is a successful person. This is a failure person.
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  Speaker 1: This is a black sheep of the family. This is
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  Speaker 1: a person who has favor. But I want to warn
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  Speaker 1: you against snap judgments. Because some of the very people
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  Speaker 1: who lag behind and look like they weren't going to
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  Speaker 1: ever bud or blossom or bring forth fruit may be
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  Speaker 1: the very person that has an appointment with destiny. But
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  Speaker 1: because you judge them prematurely before they had developed and
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  Speaker 1: gone through their changes, you might X somebody out that
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  Speaker 1: God has checked the block and said, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: bless you. It might not be in January. It may
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  Speaker 1: not happen in February. It may not happen in March
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  Speaker 1: or April or May. But I have set a date
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  Speaker 1: on the calendar. September 26th at 5.15. There is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a turning point. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: Many of you have lived your life with the sense
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  Speaker 1: and the feeling that something was about to happen in
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  Speaker 1: your life. You've gone through adversity and challenges, felt like
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  Speaker 1: giving up, felt like throwing in the towel, sometimes felt
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  Speaker 1: like life was not worth living. But at the moment
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  Speaker 1: of your greatest disparity, there was an intrinsic voice down
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  Speaker 1: in your spirit that kept telling you, hold on something. Something,
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  Speaker 1: now I would like to be more intelligent and more
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  Speaker 1: articulate than that and specifically say what is going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: But sometimes you're holding on just because you know something
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  Speaker 1: is about to happen. You don't even know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: You can't describe it. You can't explain it. You have
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  Speaker 1: no point of reference for it. You haven't seen it before.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a gut feeling. feeling that where I am
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  Speaker 1: right now is not where I'm going to end up.
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  Speaker 1: And somehow or other, I will come out of this
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  Speaker 1: on my feet. Something. I don't have a name for it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't explain it. I've never seen it happen before.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see it coming quickly. But down in my spirit,
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  Speaker 1: I sense that something thing isn't it amazing how you
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  Speaker 1: can hold on to something that you can't describe and
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  Speaker 1: you can't explain but you're still holding on to it
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  Speaker 1: for dear life something is about to happen now all
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  Speaker 1: of you who have received your blessing you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to really get into this but all of you that
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  Speaker 1: are waiting on yours touch somebody and say something is
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  Speaker 1: about to happen Now, this business about this brother being
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  Speaker 1: born blind, that means from the moment he was an infant,
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  Speaker 1: he was blind. He'd never seen a sunrise or a sunset.
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  Speaker 1: Grew up in a world where people described and talked
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  Speaker 1: about things that he could hear but couldn't see. Isn't
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  Speaker 1: it amazing how you can live in a world or
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  Speaker 1: in a community or in a city or in a
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  Speaker 1: neighborhood where somebody is going through great blessings at a
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  Speaker 1: time that you're locked out of it? You heard about it,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't see it. You listen at the radio
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  Speaker 1: and other people were talking about how it was going
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  Speaker 1: for them, but you're not seeing it. You work with
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  Speaker 1: people who have a great marriage, but you don't see it.
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  Speaker 1: You go to church with people who are getting a
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  Speaker 1: breakthrough in their lives, but you don't see it. And
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  Speaker 1: you are in a state of blindness. And yet, in
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  Speaker 1: spite of his blindness, he's still growing. Growing in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: Growing in the dark. Growing in isolation. Growing through rejection.
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  Speaker 1: Growing without having the benefits of other people around you
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  Speaker 1: and still growing. Now you can laugh at him if
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  Speaker 1: you want to, but I have to respect people who
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  Speaker 1: grow in adverse circumstances. You can say what you want to.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody else who had to deal with what this brother
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  Speaker 1: had to deal with may have committed suicide, thrown in
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  Speaker 1: the towel, said, I can't hack it. I can't handle it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm at my wit's end. But in spite of his
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  Speaker 1: blinded eyes, he kept feeding everything else and kept growing anyway.
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  Speaker 1: There are people in this room who are growing in
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  Speaker 1: spite of dark situation. They are growing in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: They got dressed dark. in the dark. They came to
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  Speaker 1: church in the dark. They bought a house in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: They're raising their children in the dark. They're dealing with
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  Speaker 1: adversities in the dark. They go to work in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: They pay their bills in the dark. Don't have everything
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  Speaker 1: that everybody else has, not seeing the blessings that other
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  Speaker 1: people are having, but you're still going ahead anyway. If
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  Speaker 1: that sounds like you, then the Lord sent me.
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  Speaker 2: Here Still to come on the Potter's Touch.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it takes, whatever I've got to go through, I've
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  Speaker 1: got to get out of this. Whatever I've got, this
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  Speaker 1: is past dignity. This is past image now. This is
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  Speaker 1: past what you think about me. I've come to a
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  Speaker 1: point of desperation. I'm the one who's been blind, walking
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  Speaker 1: in the dark, living in the dark, eating in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: And now is the chance for my delivery. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: Put it right there.
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  Speaker 1: Don't have everything that everybody else has, not seeing the
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  Speaker 1: blessings that other people are having, but you're still going
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  Speaker 1: ahead anyway. If that sounds like you, then the Lord
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  Speaker 1: sent me here. To preach to you, to teach you,
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  Speaker 1: to challenge you. You can't wait till the change occurs
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  Speaker 1: to strengthen yourself. They that wait upon the Lord shall
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  Speaker 1: renew their strength. That means in spite of the darkness,
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  Speaker 1: the bleakness, the adversity, the crisis, the trauma, the rejection,
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  Speaker 1: the pain, the divorce, the abuse, whatever it is that
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  Speaker 1: you face. You still have to have a forward motion
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  Speaker 1: in your life to prepare yourself that something else is
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  Speaker 1: going to happen in my life. You're not going to
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  Speaker 1: tell me that God brought me into this world and
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  Speaker 1: all he had for me was misery. I refuse to
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  Speaker 1: live in misery and die in misery. A breakthrough is
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  Speaker 1: coming soon. Look at somebody and tell them there has
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  Speaker 1: to be something else. Now this requires that you believe
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  Speaker 1: God for something for which you have no point of reference.
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  Speaker 1: If the man had been born sighted and then gone blind,
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  Speaker 1: at least he would have a point of reference of
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  Speaker 1: what it would be like to have his eyes open.
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  Speaker 1: But because he was born blind, this man is now
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  Speaker 1: believing God for something for which he has no point
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  Speaker 1: of reference. A nebulous faith, an indescript faith. A faith
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  Speaker 1: for which there is no verbiage or vernacular. A faith
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  Speaker 1: that attacks your spirit and gets down in your heart.
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  Speaker 1: And yet you can't honestly say that you've ever been happy.
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  Speaker 1: That you've ever had joy. That things have ever gone right.
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  Speaker 1: But you're believing God for something for which you have
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  Speaker 1: never seen it. Oh God, who am I talking to today?
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  Speaker 1: You have to have the faith to believe that things
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  Speaker 1: are not going to end up like they started out.
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  Speaker 1: that somewhere there is a U-turn where you can turn
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  Speaker 1: things around and go in another direction. Jesus said this
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  Speaker 1: man is in this condition that the works of God
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  Speaker 1: may be made manifest in his life. Interestingly enough, when
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  Speaker 1: he gets ready to heal him, his methods are somewhat unorthodox.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a plethora of methods that he could use. He
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  Speaker 1: could speak the word and say, I command you to see.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't do it. Could have laid hands on and
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  Speaker 1: touched him and said, I command your eyes to open up.
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  Speaker 1: But he didn't do it. When he got ready to
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  Speaker 1: heal the man, he spat in the ground, made mud
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  Speaker 1: out of the spit. Now the man can't see him.
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  Speaker 1: But imagine with me, if you will, you're blind. You
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  Speaker 1: have come in the presence of this healer that everybody's
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  Speaker 1: talking about is able to heal. He has called you
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  Speaker 1: out of the crowd. You have moved toward him in
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  Speaker 1: the dark. He is getting ready to heal you, you think.
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  Speaker 1: And then you hear him. Isn't it funny how God's
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  Speaker 1: method of bringing you out may not be the method
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  Speaker 1: that you would have chosen? Oh my, I could spend
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  Speaker 1: the night right there. I've seen God bring me out
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of things, but he didn't always bring
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  Speaker 1: me out through the person I wanted him to use,
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  Speaker 1: in the way I wanted him to use it. And
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  Speaker 1: he didn't bring me out as comfortable and as classy
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  Speaker 1: and as refined and as conservative as I would have
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  Speaker 1: liked for him to bring me out. He brought me out.
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  Speaker 1: I had some egg on my face, but he brought
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  Speaker 1: me out. I had a little mud running down my chin,
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  Speaker 1: but he... brought me out they were talking about me
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  Speaker 1: but he brought me out it was controversial but he
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  Speaker 1: brought me out they despised me but he brought me
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  Speaker 1: this this leads to a question how bad how bad
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  Speaker 1: do you want out See, there are people who want
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  Speaker 1: changes in their life as long as it costs them nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I want the Lord to bless me. I want to
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  Speaker 1: lose 50 pounds, but I want to eat ice cream
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  Speaker 1: late at night while I do it. I want to
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  Speaker 1: get my degree, but I don't want to go back
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  Speaker 1: to school. I want to get out of debt, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to pay anybody. I want increased income,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't want to work another job. You'd be
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  Speaker 1: surprised at people who want things, but are not willing
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  Speaker 1: to go through what it takes to get your breakthrough.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a sermon for you. You need to
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  Speaker 1: go somewhere else. Maybe that other pastor can preach to you.
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  Speaker 1: I want to preach to the people who say whatever
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  Speaker 1: it takes. I'm past shame. I'm past image. I'm past
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  Speaker 1: what you think. I'm past worried about what I look like.
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  Speaker 1: I have come to the point now that whatever it
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  Speaker 1: takes for me to turn this situation around, I've Got
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  Speaker 1: to have a... Oh my God. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. See, I don't do good with refined people
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  Speaker 1: who don't have issues. My best anointing is on radical,
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  Speaker 1: desperate people who don't care what anybody thinks that are
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  Speaker 1: willing to climb out by any means necessary. Spit right out.
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  Speaker 1: Tell somebody, I said, whatever it takes. I got to
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  Speaker 1: get out of this. Whatever it takes, whatever I've got
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  Speaker 1: to go through, I've got to get out of this.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever I've got, this is past dignity. This is past
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  Speaker 1: image now. This is past what you think about me.
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  Speaker 1: I've come to a point of desperation. I'm the one
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  Speaker 1: who's been blind, walking in the dark, living in the dark,
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  Speaker 1: eating in the dark. And now is the chance for
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  Speaker 1: my delivery. Excuse me, put it right there. He spat
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  Speaker 1: in the ground, made mud, and put it on his eyes. Incidentally,
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  Speaker 1: when you're trying to open somebody's eyes, generally you don't
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  Speaker 1: make it worse. But putting mud in my eyes is
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  Speaker 1: not a normal progression of causing me to see. Isn't
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  Speaker 1: it funny how when you are closest to your greatest miracle,
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  Speaker 1: things get worse and Y'all don't know. Is there anybody
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  Speaker 1: over here who understands how things get worse before they
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  Speaker 1: get better? And if you're a person who's going to
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  Speaker 1: give up, this is... not for the faint of heart.
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  Speaker 1: This is for the tough and the tenacious and the
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  Speaker 1: relentless people who can take a licking and keep on
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  Speaker 1: ticking and know that things may get worse before they
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  Speaker 1: get better. But I've come too far to go back
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  Speaker 1: home without getting what I need. Mud and all, I'm in. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I wish I had time to do this justice. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible said that he makes spit and mud, spit and
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  Speaker 1: earth and made mud and put it in his eye
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  Speaker 1: and told him, go wash in the pool of Siloam.
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  Speaker 1: In this statement, you have the whole controversy. Here's the controversy.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus sent this man somewhere else. To get his miracle.
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  Speaker 1: To the chagrin and the frustration of the religious, pious,
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  Speaker 1: self-righteous institutions who want to claim ownership. See, generally people
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  Speaker 1: criticize God's favor in your life because they can't claim
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  Speaker 1: rights anymore. To your accomplishment, if Jesus would have sent
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  Speaker 1: him to the Pharisees and the Pharisees could have said
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  Speaker 1: they did it, then it would have been all right
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  Speaker 1: for him to get healed. But because this man got
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  Speaker 1: healed outside of the system, I can't get away from
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  Speaker 1: that outside of the system because many of you recognize
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  Speaker 1: that in order to get what you needed from God,
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  Speaker 1: you had to break some rules, get outside of the system,
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  Speaker 1: go somewhere else. And he sent him to the pool
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  Speaker 1: of Siloam and said, go wash yourself in the pool
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  Speaker 1: of Siloam. And the Bible said he went and washed
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  Speaker 1: and came forth seeing. Suppose God sends you somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: Suppose God uses something outside of your traditions. Oh, I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you. I'm telling you. I'm telling you. This is good.
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  Speaker 1: This is good. See, anytime you get blessed outside of
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  Speaker 1: a structured institution or system, it breeds contempt and resentment
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  Speaker 1: because people feel like that they didn't validate it. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't authenticate it. And now they're going to fight it
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  Speaker 1: because they cannot accept that God did it. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: That if it had not been for the Lord that
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  Speaker 1: was on your side, you wouldn't have been able to
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  Speaker 1: do whatever it was that you did. Now, it can
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  Speaker 1: be a big thing. It can be a great thing.
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  Speaker 1: It can be moving a nation, moving a country. It
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  Speaker 1: can be getting your hair done. It doesn't matter what
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  Speaker 1: it is. For some people, other people's normal is your miracle.
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  Speaker 1: And it took a miracle for God to open up
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  Speaker 1: a door for you to get something that the person
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  Speaker 1: next to you takes for granted. They drove to church
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't think anything about it. But you drove
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  Speaker 1: to church knowing that if God had to pull some strings,
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't have had a car in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: So there you are shouting over something that they are
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  Speaker 1: accustomed to and they think they're entitled to have it.
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  Speaker 1: But you waited all of your life just to get
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  Speaker 1: to see this blessing come. Oh my God. Let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you something. Some of you have been waiting a
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  Speaker 1: long time and you're just now coming into your season.
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  Speaker 1: And as God begins to bless you, don't you let
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  Speaker 1: people intimidate you with their negative carnal saying. You better
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  Speaker 1: celebrate the goodness of the Lord and what you know
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  Speaker 1: God did in your life. Give me a second. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be back after this. There's an umbilical cord between provisions
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  Speaker 1: and purpose. God doesn't give you provisions just for your
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  Speaker 1: own personal gain.
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  Speaker 2: God has taken special care of you every step along
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  Speaker 2: the way. Ever wonder why? Because favor ain't fair.
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  Speaker 1: Everything you've got, your talent, your charisma, God gave you
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  Speaker 1: those favors. For his divine purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Reach others with your best gift. You can't be blessed
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  Speaker 1: and everybody just sit back and fold their arms. It
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  Speaker 1: ain't going to happen. It's going to be a whole lot.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe it. But in spite of the chatter,
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  Speaker 1: if God has blessed you.
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord. Isn't it time you walked in it?
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  Speaker 2: It's coming. The biggest family-friendly festival is back. Megafest 2013.
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  Speaker 1: People are asking me, what is Megafest all about? Is
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  Speaker 1: it a conference? Yes, it's a conference. But my God,
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  Speaker 1: it's so much more. And it's festivity. It's fun. It's restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: It's shopping. It's People of God, relax it. We've been
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  Speaker 1: through the fire. We've been through the flood. We made it.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to celebrate. Bigger, better, grander than before.
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  Speaker 2: Three event-packed days for the whole family.
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  Speaker 1: All types of entertainment for your family, for your kids.
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  Speaker 1: We've got material that men are going to need to
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  Speaker 1: cause you to stand up and be powerful, to be
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  Speaker 1: the man that God has called you to be at manpower.
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  Speaker 1: The woman, our Lucy, you already know. It's incredible. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to put your family first. in a spiritual
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  Speaker 1: environment and show them that it's fun to be a Christian.
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  Speaker 2: Megafest 2013. Get your tickets now. Visit mega-fest.com or call 1-800-BISHOP-2.
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  Speaker 1: We're at a party in Texas. You know what? We
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  Speaker 1: do it big in Texas. When there's a lot of turbulence,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of emails and a lot of interaction, they
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  Speaker 1: call it chatter. And chatter gives you an image of
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of noise going on in the room.
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  Speaker 1: And when the chatter increases, a lot of times the
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  Speaker 1: threat level is raised because the chatter is there. And
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  Speaker 1: I want to tell you something. When you're really getting
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  Speaker 1: blessed by God, expect there to be a lot of
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  Speaker 1: there will be chatter. You can't be blessed and everybody
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  Speaker 1: just sit back and fold their arms and say, go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead. It's your birthday. I'm not mad.
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  Speaker 1: It ain't going to happen. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot. I don't believe it. I don't think it's right.
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  Speaker 1: Who is she to be? Who is he? I know
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't think, but in spite of the chatter, if
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  Speaker 1: God has blessed you, Oh my God, my God. Testify
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  Speaker 1: and say, don't let the noise stop you. I've got
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  Speaker 1: to stop there, but it's been a real joy, a
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  Speaker 1: real blessing to share the word of the Lord with you.
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  Speaker 1: I pray that you would grow up into God's favor,
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  Speaker 1: that you would reach the full stature and the full
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  Speaker 1: purpose of all that God has for you. And know
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  Speaker 1: that there's just this country man down in Dallas, Texas
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  Speaker 1: that loves you with the love of the Lord and
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  Speaker 1: that I am praying for you. and I trust you
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  Speaker 1: to pray for me as well. I hope you and
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  Speaker 1: I can get together again. We can hang out and
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  Speaker 1: have fun in the city of Dallas. I'm throwing this
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  Speaker 1: massive spiritual awakening. It's going to be an oasis for
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  Speaker 1: families who want to have fun in a spiritual environment.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Megafest, and you have an invitation from me.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let anybody stop you. Tell them Bishop Jason invited me,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to Megafest. God is going to bless
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  Speaker 1: your life, and we're going to have a mighty good time.
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  Speaker 1: Until then, I pray you have a great day. I
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  Speaker 1: pray you have a great week. I pray that you
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  Speaker 1: enter into a season of favor like something you have
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  Speaker 1: never seen. Take care.